background. A telephone or telegraph pole stands on the street corner.; Huge piles of snow stand in front of the First National Bank at the corner of Eureka and Main street in Central City, Colorado, after the "Big Snow" in December of 1913. A small group of people stands at the side of the bank, where H. H. Lake worked for 47years between 1880 and 1927. A small boy stands on one of the piles of snow in the foreground. A man rides a horse and leads another one on Main Street in the midground. The Central City Hotel stands in the